In which I upset my wrist
Jun. 17th, 2012 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonMy right wrist and I are not so happy with each other, right now. I'm not quite sure what happened... last weekend I was at ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
crs's wedding, teaching beginners acro and holding them on my hands in floating paschi with no problem. Sunday I did nothing but knit an unusual amount, which may have been the problem (even though knitting's never hurt my wrist before, it can tighten up the forearms). Monday my wrist hurt, but I did handstand class anyway, which was definitely unwise. Tuesday, all pain all the time.
Bleh. I iced it, and ultrasounded the forearm, and mostly rested for 3 days whileapfelsingail was here. It seemed reasonable, but, have I mentioned I hate the results of resting? I just get sore in a different way than usual. So not worth it.
Yesterday was the first day of a weekend acro training thing -- despite sitting out all the handstands (sigh), the wrist felt better just from getting some blood flowing to it. Also, I found out that pushups are still okay (especially fingertip pushups), down dog is okay, even a half-handstand with feet on the wall is almost okay. Pullups are great. So the only thing I can't do is have my wrist bent backward AND have a full half-body-weight on it. (Handstands, and basing certain acro tricks.)
My plan is to do cardio every day between now and when it's better. Blood flow is good for healing. Sticking my forearm in a folded-over heating pad last night felt good, too... I've now got the tight forearm muscle that's attached to the angry tendon, plus the opposite one that's pulling back against the first one.
crs's wedding, teaching beginners acro and holding them on my hands in floating paschi with no problem. Sunday I did nothing but knit an unusual amount, which may have been the problem (even though knitting's never hurt my wrist before, it can tighten up the forearms). Monday my wrist hurt, but I did handstand class anyway, which was definitely unwise. Tuesday, all pain all the time.Bleh. I iced it, and ultrasounded the forearm, and mostly rested for 3 days while
apfelsingail was here. It seemed reasonable, but, have I mentioned I hate the results of resting? I just get sore in a different way than usual. So not worth it.Yesterday was the first day of a weekend acro training thing -- despite sitting out all the handstands (sigh), the wrist felt better just from getting some blood flowing to it. Also, I found out that pushups are still okay (especially fingertip pushups), down dog is okay, even a half-handstand with feet on the wall is almost okay. Pullups are great. So the only thing I can't do is have my wrist bent backward AND have a full half-body-weight on it. (Handstands, and basing certain acro tricks.)
My plan is to do cardio every day between now and when it's better. Blood flow is good for healing. Sticking my forearm in a folded-over heating pad last night felt good, too... I've now got the tight forearm muscle that's attached to the angry tendon, plus the opposite one that's pulling back against the first one.
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Date: 2012-06-18 01:45 am (UTC)I want to rest the things that hurt, but have no interest anymore in total, 100% rest. All that does is hurt in a different way. I'm definitely worried now about the 5-day acrobatic immersion I'm signed up for... it starts in 10 days, and I've written them to see what the cancellation policy is. Between work and the wrist, I might be better off without it at this point...
Bleh!
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Date: 2012-06-18 03:08 am (UTC)I'm just warning you from what I saw happen to her. She didn't totally rest and its been a several year long recovery. You're way younger then her though so take everything I saw with ten grains of salt.